Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.6
Points
12.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
76255
Points per Word
0.000157
Page Count
321
Points per Page
0.037383
Description
Clifton, feeling alone after his black father is murdered and his white mother turns to alcohol, finds his life changing when he meets Swamper, the elderly man living near the river. The plot contains violence and the language of racism.